Peter Drucker Quotes

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

It's one thing to make a choice. It's another to put that choice into practice.

There's a lot of work that needs to be done, and there's a difference between talking the talk and walking the walk.

Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.

Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

You can't just set the vision, take a nap, and not keep working on making your vision happen. Your intention has to be backed by work.

As a mayor, my instinct is to really think about how to get something done and not to make the promise unless you have some view of the pathway. You don't have to have it all figured out, but you have to have a pathway there.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

I'm certainly hoping that all the recommendations that we have heard will be implemented.

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

In the real world, words don't automatically translate into deeds.

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.

Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment.

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.